Definition
An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
In Context
- "So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it.""
- "Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make a dog's breakfast of it."
- "I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue."
Also Said As
- cat's breakfast
- pig's breakfast
- hodgepodge
- pig's ear
- dog's dinner
- bedlam
- car crash
- chaos
- confusion
- disarray
- disorder
- disorganization
- dog's breakfast
- dog's dinner
- free-for-all
- fuddle
- hash
- hot mess
- imbroglio
- mash
- maze
- mess
- misorder
- mommick
- muddle
- mullock
- muss
- shambles
- shemozzle
- snarl
- tangle
- topsy-turviness
- upfuckery
- bouillabaisse
- bric-a-brac
- catch-all
- clamjamfrey
- cocktail
- rummage
- gallery
- congeries
- crazyquilt
- disjecta membra
- farrago
- galimatias
- gallimaufry
- grab bag
- hodgepodge
- horse and rabbit stew
- hotchpotch
- hotchpot
- job lot
- jumble
- macedoine
- medley
- melange
- mingle-mangle
- miscellanea
- miscellany
- mishmash
- mixed bag
- mixture
- motley
- odds and ends
- oddments
- olio
- olla podrida
- omnium-gatherum
- pastiche
- patchwork quilt
- potpourri
- ragbag
- salmagundi
- slurry
- smorgasbord
- welter
- Whitman's sampler